Pardee Director and Summer Fellow Discuss African Cuisine at BU Alumni Weekend

Pardee Director, ad interim, Prof. James C. McCann and 2011 Pardee Summer Fellow Natalie Mettler, prepared dishes relating to African culture and discussed the relationship between food and the culture, history and national identity of Africans at Back to Class: Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine on October 29, 2011. The event was part of the activities organized for the BU Alumni weekend and based on McCann’s book Stirring the Pot, which offers a chronology of Africa cuisine, beginning in the sixteenth century and continuing from Africa’s original edible endowments to its globalization.